I haven't gone though the C code yet. What I have known so far, cfengine
usually uses full path names so I don't think that the pattern would be used in
the root folder of the depth search. Concerning your problem, cfengine might
try to do exclude_dirs regex with "base/hello/data/cache". It might be a
reason that "data/cache" doesn't work, but ".*data/cache".
Also you may try to have directories like; then run cf-agent.
- base/hello/data/cache
- base/hello/filedata/cache
- base/hello/tmpdata/cache
- base/hello/testdata/cache
If my guesswork is true, neither of them would be copied.
Cheers,
--Nakarin
On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> I can confirm that it excludes base/hello/data/cache. So is there a symbol to
> use in a exclude_dirs pattern to mean "the root of the depth search" ?
>
> Also, I really don't understand why you need the .* in front. If someone can
> enlighten me... thanks
>
> Jean-Noel
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau <elva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried that and it seems to be working! But, why ??
>
> I previously just had exclude_dirs => { "data/cache" }; . Why do you need the
> .* in front? Also, I guess this would also exclude base/hello/data/cache,
> which I may want...
>
> Jean-Noel
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Nakarin Phooripoom <mynameisje...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Maybe this is what you want.
>
> body depth_search recurse(depth)
> {
> depth => "$(depth)";
> exclude_dirs => { ".*data/cache" };
> }
>
> Cheers,
> --Nakarin
>
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > It seems to me exclude_dirs is not flexible enough, or I dont know how to
> > use it properly.
> >
> > Say I have a base directory I want to copy recursively, base/. Inside base/
> > there is a data subfolder, and inside data cache/.
> >
> > I dont want to copy the cache directory base/data/cache; however I do want
> > to copy a base/other/cache directory for instance. How can I specify pathes
> > in the regexps to achieve this kind of things?
> >
> > It seems to me it is not possible, but I would love to be proved wrong (or,
> > unfortunately, confirmed true, in which case I would probably have to use
> > rsync then).
> >
> > Jean-Noel
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